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Callum Hoare & Matt Drake

NASA captures sound of a black hole for the first time and it sounds just like you imagined

NASA has recorded the sound of a black hole for the first time ever - and it sounds eerie. The amazing feat was achieved as a result of the "echoes", which are space phenomena released in the form of X-rays.

In 2003, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory detected the waves in the Perseus galaxy cluster. Now, they have been converted from data into sound waves for NASA's Black Hole Week 2022, Express.co.uk reports.

NASA said in a statement: "In some ways, this sonification is unlike any other done before because it revisits the actual sound waves discovered in data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The popular misconception that there is no sound in space originates with the fact that most of space is essentially a vacuum, providing no medium for sound waves to propagate through.

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